That’s where the money is — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and OnlyFans! Hooray! It’s the golden age for creators. It’s the golden age of selling pipe dreams to losers like you and me. What? You look like a sun-dried blowfish and are too ugly for video? No problem. You, my friend, can also make a killing…

Not sure what it is? Read on to see how to improve your writing. — My sister and I love talking about unusual words and I hate to admit it, but we’re both as bad as each other for correcting people’s grammar and pronunciation. In the pursuit of world peace, we try not to mention it out loud. But if you know either of us…

With over two dozen stories adapted for film or television — you might like to know Elmore Leonard’s secret — “When you say a guy has got a gun, you know something is going to happen. If the gun doesn’t go off, then don’t put it in the story.” — Elmore Leonard. Elmore Leonard was fascinated with guys who live with and use guns. He never owned a gun. They…

Writing is as Writing Does — Allow me to preface what you are about to read with a brief explanation of how I came to depend upon the dictation tools featured in this story. I suffered a debilitating stroke that I have outlined and explained (in Limerick form, no less) in the following story – Brain Injourney v3.0 Come along and read about a fantastic injourney. Well, maybe not so “fantastic”, but…www.baixiangren.com

What you can do to land more writing gigs that aren’t going back to school — Disclaimer: I am not going to tell you to not go to college or that a college degree is useless. This is wholly and factually untrue. The way I came into my writing, editing, and freelancing career was entirely from my passion for storytelling. I didn’t go to college for…

Busy work isn’t writing — I love spreadsheets. As a writer, I’m probably not supposed to admit that. But what can I say — I love a good pivot table. I use Google sheets to make to-do lists, organize my working drafts and ideas, and track my personal and professional finances. …

Snootiness will get you absolutely nowhere — So you’ve been reading your literary fiction draft and analysing your sentences. And something feels, well, off about them. They make sense, you know that. They follow a sequence, they build up your plot, they convey just enough meaning without going overboard. Except that they’re just…sentences. Of the sort pretty…

Once you “find the lead”, your story will click into place. — If you don’t know how to catch a reader’s attention in the first few seconds of a story, you’ll be dead in the water. Enter the lead: a single sentence, paragraph, or section that summarizes the who, what, where, when, why, and how of your story. Think of leads as…

Know what you need to do when — One of the several reasons I had for self-publishing my first book, a collection of creepy short stories, was for the hands-on learning process. I wanted to understand self-publishing better. And as I person who learns best by doing, I eventually got over my hesitations and fears and jumped right…